GARCZYN, Poland–If you want to see the faces of the Ukrainian orphans U.S. and Polish credit unions have been helping, you need to exit the two-lane road in a rural area of Poland, turn onto a rough, single lane that eventually surrenders and becomes gravel, cross over the railroad tracks and drive deeper into the forest. And there you will find them.
One-hundred-nine children of all ages from two to 19 who were hurriedly evacuated from Ukraine shortly after Russia dropped bombs just 30 kilometers from where they were living in Chmielnicki, were transported to where—they did not know.
But now they know it as Garczyn, the abbreviated version of their new home’s formal name, Powiatowe Centrum Mlodziezy w Garczynie.